The Lace Remains [pdf] - added 10/29/2024
Life Takes Place [pdf] - added 7/12/2023
The Art of Deep Shepherding [pdf] - added 5/25/2023
Christopher Alexander Memorial [pdf] - added 3/30/2023
John McCarthy: Stories [pdf] - added 3/29/2023
Virtual-world-inspired Programming Language Design [pdf] - added 3/29/2023
Stray Thoughts on “Old Masters and Young Geniuses” [pdf] - added 3/23/2023
Notes on “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”: The Presentation [pdf] - added 3/19/2023
Notes on “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” [pdf] - added 3/19/2023
A Pattern Language for Writers' Workshops [pdf] - added 6/17/2022
Conferences & Остраннeние [pdf] - added 6/17/2022
Notes for “Notes on "Notes" ” [pdf] - added 6/17/2022
Notes on “A Result in Visual Aesthetics” [pdf] - added 4/8/2022
A Pattern Language for Textual Electronic Communication [pdf] - added 3/11/2021
The Bosks are Thorny, Grim, and Icky (InkWell Retrospective) [pdf] - added 11/18/2020
Patterns: You're Doing It Completely Wrong [pdf] - added 11/18/2020
A Search for Beauty / A Struggle with Complexity (presentation) [pdf] - added 11//18/2020
A Search for Beauty / A Struggle with Complexity: Christopher Alexander [pdf] - added 7/21/2020
"in the control room of the banquet" [pdf] - added 8/10/2016
InkWell: A Creative Writer’s Creative Assistant [pdf] - added 8/16/2015
I Throw Itching Powder at Tulips [pdf] - added 8/16/2015
The Nature of Order [pdf - 45mb]
Waltz in Illinois [pdf] - added 9/26/2012
Structured Descriptions [pdf] - added 9/6/2012
The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution [pdf] - added 8/11/2012
Publication Culture in Computer Science and Software Engineering [pdf] - added 8/11/2012
Defamiliarization: Flarf, Conceptual Writing, and Using Flawed Software Tools as Creative Partners [workshop version pdf] [journal version [pdf] - added 9/26/2011, 8/11/2012
Better Science Through Art [pdf] - added 8/22/2010
A Review of The Art of the Metaobject Protocol [pdf] - added 8/27/2009
Using CLOS-like Concepts in a Prototyping System [pdf] - added 8/27/2009
Requirements for a Common Prototyping System [pdf] - added 8/27/2009
Science is Not Enough: On the Creation of Software [script (pdf)][slides (6.8mb pdf)] - added 8/27/2009
Extravagaria V—Photographing Conferences (Advanced), a 5-day workshop - added 5/19/2009
A Pattern of Language Evolution - added 12/18/2008
The Road: Reinventing Education - added 10/29/2008
Designed as Designer - added 10/28/2008
Fourth Extravagaria Workshop, OOPSLA 2008 - added 05/25/2008
Lisp-in-Lisp: High Performance and Portability
S-1 Common Lisp Implementation
Design of An Optimizing, Dynamically Retargetable Compiler for Common Lisp - added 03/01/2008
Analysis of the Revision of a Poem by Bill Knott - added 2/28/2008
The Commons as New Economy & What This Means for Research - added 1/17/2008
Writers’ Workshops As Scientific Methodology - added 1/17/1008
Design Beyond Human Abilities - added 1/16/2008
The Poetry of Programming - added 1/20/2007
Open Standards, Open Source, and the Public Good - added 9/3/2006
Conscientious Software - added 8/5/2006
Ultra-Large-Scale System Workshop at OOPSLA 2006 - added 7/22/2006
Creation: A Culture of Gift - added 5/27/2006
Writers' Workshops and the Work of Making Things (716 kb pdf) - added 4/11/2006
Poem a Day Project - added 4/3/2006
The Art of Lisp & Writing - added 1/24/2006
Lucid Lost - added 12/8/2005
rpg's response to Lucid Lost - added 12/8/2005
Bad Companies - added 7/21/2005
Allen Newell Award Statement - added 6/11/2005
OOPSLA 2005 - added 6/4/2005
Third Extravagaria Workshop, OOPSLA 2005 - added 6/4/2005
Wizards Party Invititation After Hunter S. Thompson - added 3/31/2005
Guide to Successful OOPSLA Submissions - added 1/1/2005
OOPSLA 2005: Explore; Discover; Understand - added 12/4/2004
"What is Science? What is Art?" [pdf] - added 11/2/2004
"Explore; Discover; Understand" [position paper pdf] [presentation pdf] - added 11/2/2004
"Outsourcing: Those Cheap Bastards" [position paper pdf] [presentation pdf] - added 11/2/2004
"The Stability after Confusion" [position paper pdf] [presentation pdf] - added 11/2/2004
"Clients, Customers, and the Celebration of Change" [position paper pdf] - added 11/2/2004
Letter to Chris DiBona and Tim O'Reilly - added 8/1/2004
The Second Extravagaria Workshop at OOPSLA 2004 - added 5/7/2004
Self-Sustaining Systems Overview [pdf] - added 5/3/2004
Self-Sustaining Systems Engineering Presentation [pdf] - added 5/3/2004
Common Lisp Object System [pdf] - added 5/3/2004
CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming [pdf] - added 5/3/2004
CLOS in Context: The Shape of the Design Space [pdf] - added 5/3/2004
Concepts [pdf] and Functions [pdf]—the CLOS specification - added 5/3/2004
Do Programmers Need Seat Belts? - added 4/4/2004
Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems (pdf) - added 2/7/2004
Science of Design (pdf) - added 11/28/2003
Form and Function in Software (pdf) - added 11/28/2003
Software Preservation (pdf) - added 11/28/2003
Patterns of Software (1.2 mb pdf) - added 7/28/2003
Memorial for Leonard N. Zubkoff - added 3/30/2003
Text of my parents' memorial and two photos - added 11/20/2002
OOPSLA 2002 Debate Objects Have Failed - added 11/18/2002
Onward! 2002 Proceedings [pdf] - added 11/11/2002
The Road Not Taken [4.9 mb pdf] - added 10/3/2002
Fine Points of Pattern Writing [pdf] - added 10/3/2002
Workshop Leader Seminar [pdf] - added 10/3/2002
Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl [pdf] - added 8/14/2002
Triggers & Practice: How Extremes in Writing Relate to Creativity and Learning [pdf] - added 8/9/2002
The Common Lisp Object System: An Overview [pdf] - added 8/9/2002
Books I've written - added 7/27/2002
The Extravagaria Workshop at OOPSLA 2002 - added 6/8/2002
Feyerabend Project Page - modified 6/5/2002
Official photo and bio - added 3/27/2002
Official high-res photo - added 3/27/2002
Turing, Searle, and Thought - added 3/17/2002
Whither Software (1.2 mb pdf) - added 3/12/2002
The Evolution of Lisp - Uncut Version [pdf] - added 2/11/2002
The Feyerabend Project at ECOOP 2002 - a new workshop- added 1/31/2002
The Feyerabend Project at ETAPS 2003 - a new workshop - added 1/24/2002
rpg - modified 1/13/2002
Used Software [pdf] - an early view on reuse - added 1/1/2002
What Computers Can't Do (and Why) [Wild pdf] [Mild pdf] - an early essay on computer limitations - added 1/1/2002
Energize/Cadillac research overview [html] - added 1/1/2002
Foundation for a C++ Environment [pdf] - added 1/1/2002
Qlisp research overview [html] - added 1/1/2002
Later Qlisp paper [pdf] - added 1/1/2002
Original Qlambda paper [pdf] - added 1/1/2002
Qlisp implementation and further research [pdf] - added 1/1/2002
Feyerabend Project Page - modified 1/1/2002
A Critique of Common Lisp [pdf] - added 12/31/2001
How to Move Forward - added12/21/2001
Feyerabend (OOPSLA 2001) Workshop III results - modified 12/21/2001
Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code [html] [pdf] - OOPSLA 2000 Keynote
Interspersions - musical notes for Mob Software
Worse Is Better discussion [html]
"Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big" [html] [pdf] - the classic Worse is Better paper
Models of Software Acceptance: How Winners Win
Money Through Innovation Reconsidered
Back to the Future: Is Worse (Still) Better?
Back to the Future: Worse (Still) is Better!
Lessons From The Science of Nothing At All [html]
Master of Fine Arts in Software [html] [pdf]
Repetition, Generativity, and Patterns [html] - the introduction to "Pattern Languages of Program Design, 2," Vlissides, John M., Coplien, James O., and Kerth, Norman L. (eds), Addison-Wesley, 1996
Christopher Alexander: The Search for Beauty [pdf]
The Nature of Order: The Post-Patterns World [pdf]
The Jini Community Pattern Language [pdf]
Nickieben Bourbaki - who is he?!
RPG’s Writing Broadside [html] - writing advice
Tone, Tone, Tone [html] - tubes
Fake Systems Qual circa 1982 [html]
The Why of Y [pdf]
Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells [html]
The Design of Parallel Programming Languages [html]
The Evolution of Lisp [pdf]
Fluid Domains [html] - PhD thesis stuff
Deliberate Writing [html]- PhD thesis stuff
My Master of Fine Arts in Poetry
Leaf of My Puzzled Desire [pdf] - poems
The Nature of Poetic Order [pdf] - a theory of poetry (slides)
Annotations Toward a Theory of Poetry [pdf]
The Sun Rises, Rises, Rises [pdf] - a review of "The Daily Mirror," by David Lehman
Lower Standards [pdf] - about writing a poem a day and the roles of selection and perfection in creating art
First Semester Annotations [pdf]
Second Semester Annotations [pdf]
Third Semester Annotations [pdf]
Third Semester Essay [pdf]
Fourth Semester Annotations [pdf]
Fifth Semester Annotations [pdf]
Bibliography - what I read at Warren Wilson
You can’t get there from here, but you can get here from there
Biological Framings of Problems in Computing - a workshop